Favorite Theatre Quotes

“Theater has the potential to break through binaries, to bring us into a world of ambiguity and paradox. To unlock positional thinking, to shatter taboos, to disrupt the normal patterns of our brain. Art has the power to explode the heart and open up other energetic capacities to reperceive. It defies boundaries and leaps tall buildings. It transports, it translates, it transcends. Transcendence is so important right now because our lives are so mechanized, controlled and commodified; art has the capacity to open our souls and could be our revolutionary, evolutionary salvation.” —Eve Ensler, Playwright, activist and the founder of V-Day And One Billion Rising

“It was only in the theatre that I lived.” — Oscar Wilde

“Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experiences – so we’re all different.” — Ian McKellen

“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.” — Arthur Miller

“Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.” —Alan Rickman

“All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.” —Stephen Sondheim

“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” —Meryl Streep